Podcast | Intermediate Resource

Explanation
— Putting your best material first is essential for ensuring it gets enough time to have value in a debate.
— This begins with allocation and ordering your arguments in order of importance.
— Common strategies - ROG, Principles, Practicalities, benefits and harms to stakeholders.
— Prioritisation isn’t just about your case, its about your opposition’s case too.

Common mistakes
— Not identifying when a case has shifted and not responding to the most important material.
— Prioritising the wrong parts of a set up. Don’t be overly descriptive when an analogy will do.

Conclusion
— Extremely important and universal — don’t forget it for seniors.
— Part of your strategy as much as it is part of the format of the debate. To string things together, you need to prove one thing before another!!

Matter Prioritisation